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高中辍学生玛利亚告诉家人自己怀孕后,父亲倒毙地上,母亲把她踢出家门,男朋友弃她而去。于是她孤零零一个人无家可归。此时她遇上马修。他是个修理电子器械很有天分的高中毕业生,但他有个原则:质量至上,这使得他每份工作都做不长久。当玛利亚接受了马修的帮助,他们便展开一段令彼此发生转变的关系……
When high school dropout Maria Coughlin announces her pregnancy to her parents, her father drops dead on the floor. Her mother kicks her out of the house and her boyfriend dumps her, so Maria is left alone and homeless. This is when she meets Matthew Slaughter. Matthew is an educated high school graduate with a great talent for fixing electronic devices, but he can't hang on to a job because of his principled attitude towards quality. When Maria accepts Matthew's offer to help her, they begin to form a relationship with each other in which both of them begin to change.。除却在镁光灯前的光鲜之后,陪伴名模珍妮弗(伊丽莎·库斯伯特 Elisha Cuthbert 饰)的只有她的宠物狗。难得的一天休息,珍妮弗前往夜店喝酒却被人下迷药,醒来之后发现自己被杀人狂囚禁在一间密室之内。面对影子一般杀人狂的种种折磨和恐吓,珍妮弗几次试图逃走都没有成功 。就在她心灰意冷的时刻,她发现了与她一墙之隔的盖瑞(丹尼尔·吉里斯 Daniel Gillies 饰)。盖瑞告诉珍妮弗他也是被囚禁于此,两人因在绝望中寻找到同伴而产生一丝慰藉。杀人狂继续对二人施以各种折磨,在与杀人狂的周旋中盖瑞总是设法保护珍妮弗。珍妮弗慢慢对这个英勇的男人萌生好感,绝望的黑暗里两人用身体给予对方勇气和希望。然而,真相却在此时逐渐浮出水面……。